Afcon winner Winfried Schäfer favourite for Zimbabwe coaching job
BY SPORTSCAST WRITER
HARARE – Zimbabwe has announced shortlisting Africa Cup of Nations-winning Winfried Schäfer for the country’s coaching job, alongside four others.
74-year-old German Schäfer – who guided Cameroon to the 2002 Afcon title – is favourite to land the...
‘Only months ago they were playing All Blacks and France’: Piet psyches up players...
BY ENOCK MUCHINJO IN KAMPALA, UGANDA
Zimbabwe rugby coach Piet Benade has acknowledged that Namibia are “battle-hardened” following their participation at the World Cup late last year, but is confident his team will be competitive against them on Wednesday.
The two...
Ireland v Zimbabwe: White excited for ‘historic’ first Test match in NI
It does not quite trip off the tongue but the little Belfast venue is set to create a big slice of cricket history by hosting the first Test match in Northern Ireland.
It will become the 123rd ground to stage...
‘We’re hoping to play eight Tests this year’: ZRU boss
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KAMPALA – Zimbabwe’s rugby team will not rest on its laurels, beyond the on-going Africa Cup here in Uganda, as the Sables prepare for next year’s final onslaught at a World Cup return after three decades in...
From a leader of young men to a warrior amongst the senior men
BY ENOCK MUCHINJO IN KAMPALA, UGANDA
It is Saturday afternoon in fortress Kampala, the partisan home crowd baying for blood.
Zimbabwe leads Uganda 10-0 early in the first-half, and the Sables’ solidly-built wing Taku Musingwini has just made a try-saving tackle,...
Big party in Kampala amid local mourning as Sables hold on to edge Cranes...
BY ENOCK MUCHINJO IN KAMPALA
Ugandans know how to put up quite a show, and on Saturday at the Mandela National Stadium they delivered a spectacle on the first day of the Rugby Africa Cup here.
They had rehearsed tremendously, a...
Nick Welch, Antum Naqvi named in Zim Emerging squad to host South Africans
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HARARE – Nick Welch will aim to resurrect his career through a Zimbabwe Emerging side set to host their South African counterparts at the end of the month.
South Africa Emerging XI will arrive in Bulawayo on 30...
Chigumbura coaches Zimbabwe A on ‘mysterious’ UK tour…15-man squad already in England
BY SPORTSCAST WRITER
HARARE – The mystery over a second-string Zimbabwean cricket team's tour of the United Kingdom has been kind of solved by SportsCast, who can reveal that former national team captain Elton Chigumbura is coaching the side, with...
‘The level of skills is slackening off’: Zim coach reacts after ruthless India clinch...
BY SPORTSCAST WRITER
HARARE – Justin Sammons, Zimbabwe’s new cricket coach, has conceded that his team needs to “up the skills” after India completed a thumping series-clinching 10-wicket win to give the South African tactician a proper baptism of fire.
India...
‘He was lifting his teammates out of the bus’: Student hailed for heroics amid...
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HARARE – Obinna Nweke, a Falcon College teenage pupil who used his imposing physique to help prevent further casualties in a June road accident that left one teammate dead, has been recognised for his “heroism” at the...
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Zimbabwe’s quest for an Olympics spot gets Mudzekenyedzi boost
BY CHRIS TAVONESA
HARARE – Brandon Mudzekenyedzi, the New Zealand-based livewire, is back in Zimbabwean colours after he was last year controversially omitted from the...
